Long Quotes

The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.